C road crash in North West Leicestershire DE74 on 10 December 2020 at 17:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in North West Leicestershire at 17:42 on Thursday 10 December 2020. The 40-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84646, longitude -1.33707, in the DE74 postcode district and within the built-up area of Castle Donington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle Donington Central, North West Leicestershire, DE74 2NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332001238
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6540 in North West Leicestershire, 1 April 1986
16 m awayRef 19863386N0176
Slight
Car crash on the B6540 in North West Leicestershire, 28 March 1984
35 m awayRef 19843384N0198
Slight
Car crash on the B6540 in North West Leicestershire, 25 January 1980
35 m awayRef 19803380N0037
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 21 July 1998
55 m awayRef 1998339805461
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6540 in North West Leicestershire, 26 November 1990
65 m awayRef 1990339008748
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6540 in North West Leicestershire, 31 August 1991
75 m awayRef 1991339106111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 40, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2020332001238 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 2020.